The Civil, Structural and Architectural R&D TeamThe CSA R&D team designs the template buildings, foundations, and modular structures that Fluidstack builds again and again for gigawatt-scale AI data centers. We engineer the design once, prove it, and hand delivery teams a package they can build without reinventing it.
Examples of key problems the team is working on- Design a repeatable building and foundation system that survives fabrication, transport, and site conditions across very different geographies.
- Bring structural engineering in-house so design decisions close in days, not in weeks of waiting on an outside engineer of record.
- Resolve the collisions between structure, equipment, and MEP: load paths, penetrations, attachment points, and tolerances in a tight envelope.
- Turn factory and field lessons into engineered fixes in the next design revision.
Role Scope- Own the structural calculations. Run gravity, lateral, foundation, lifting, and transport analyses for template buildings, equipment supports, skids, and modular structures, and stand behind the numbers.
- Produce the detailed designs. Take structural systems from concept through fabrication-ready drawings, connection details, and specifications without handing the work to a third party.
- Make the design repeatable. Build the standard details, load tables, and design rules that let the same structure be built at many sites with minimal site-specific engineering.
- Integrate across disciplines. Resolve where structure meets architecture, mechanical, electrical, and fire protection so the package builds clean.
- Run structural support for the factory and the field. Answer RFIs, review shop drawings and submittals, and engineer fixes into the next revision.
- Hand off to delivery. Package the design so site teams, fabricators, and local engineers of record can execute it with minimal rework.
What We're Looking ForThe below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.- You have 7+ years of structural engineering on industrial, mission-critical, or data center buildings, with steel, concrete, and foundation design in your own hands.
- You perform your own calculations and produce your own detailed designs. You do not need an outside engineer to close a design.
- You know the codes cold: IBC, ASCE 7, AISC 360, ACI 318, and how to apply them across seismic, wind, and snow regions.
- You work in structural analysis and drafting tools daily (RISA, SAP2000, ETABS, RAM, Revit, or equivalent) and your drawings build without a stream of fabricator calls.
- You have designed pre-engineered metal buildings, equipment foundations, or modular and transported structures, and you treat lifting and transport loads as first-class constraints.
- You work across disciplines instead of throwing problems over walls, and you iterate fast without losing configuration control.
- Bonus: PE license (SE a plus). Experience as engineer of record on hyperscale data center or industrial projects. DfMA and modular construction depth.
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